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Here’s a fun little exchange that a source in the Congressional delegation sent along, involving a letter circulated to members of the House of Representatives by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.

She’s proposing a one-percent across-the-board cut in agency spending, and used Gov. Andrew Cuomo to make her argument. The governor’s executive budget in 2011 included a 10-percent spending trim for all agencies. He also reduced his salary by as much.

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